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Data Doctors: Has my Google account been hacked? 10/06/2023 06:09pm • Q: I think I’ve been hacked — is there a way to see if someone is using my Google account? A: It’s an unsettling feeling when you suspect that you’ve been compromised and Google accounts are highly targeted by the internet underworld because they know that virtually everyone has one. O Documentary chronicles Kurt Angle from Olympic gold to WWE champ, making painkillers tap out 10/06/2023 02:54pm • Hear our full chat on my podcast “Beyond the Fame with Jason Fraley.” He went from Olympic gold to WWE champion, battling addiction and coming out clean on the other side. If a Hollywood screenwriter wrote Kurt Angle's life as a fiction movie script, no one would believe it, and ye Maryland State Board of Education names Carey Wright interim superintendent 10/04/2023 10:11pm • The Maryland State Board of Education voted unanimously for Carey Wright to become the state's interim superintendent of schools. (Courtesy Mississippi Department of Education) This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Hundreds of DC-area health care workers join nationwide Kaiser Permanente strike 10/04/2023 10:30am • About 400 healthcare workers in the D.C. area are on strike Wednesday morning after health care provider Kaiser Permanente and a coalition of unions, representing more than 75,000 of its workers, failed to reach a new contract deal Tuesday night. A few dozen striking employees picketing on the s Updated Novavax COVID-19 vaccine wins FDA approval 10/03/2023 03:05pm • The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use approval for Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Novavax’s updated COVID-19 booster shot, nearly three weeks after approving mRNA vaccine updates from Pfizer and Moderna. The Novavax vaccine still must get approval from the Centers for Dis WTOP's Neal Augenstein: My first year with stage 4 lung cancer 10/02/2023 08:25am • You probably remember about this time last year I started coughing. I didn't stop coughing until I was diagnosed and began treatment for stage 4 lung cancer. By now, you likely know that after a couple months of coughing, I was surprised to learn in November 2022 that I had cancerous tumors and l Indiana woman sentenced to 18 years for fatally shooting DC love interest 09/30/2023 07:34am • A woman from South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison for fatally shooting a D.C. man who she was casually dating and stalking in 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Officials said Nijinsky Dix, 40, pleaded guilty on Feb. 13 to a charge of second degree murde Data Doctors: Zelle vs. Venmo, which is better? 09/29/2023 08:38am • Q: What’s the difference between Zelle and Venmo? A: Mobile payment systems allow you to use your smartphone to transfer money, which eliminates the need to write checks, grab cash from an ATM or purchase money orders or cashier’s checks. This convenience also benefits the recipient as the Perhaps math could use a rebrand (because, psst, it’s critical to success) 09/28/2023 02:17pm •  Just the mere mention of “math” invariably brings up thoughts of difficulty, stress and a narrow focus, but education and business leaders say it shouldn’t. “It’s really about just day-to-day survival and problem solving,” said Jack McDougle, president and CEO of the Greater Wa DC teens graduate Howard University Hospital anti-violence program 09/28/2023 11:38am • Teenagers make up a large part of D.C.'s rising homicide rate but Howard University Hospital is trying to steer them away from violence and onto a positive path in life. The Howard University ENGAGE Saturday Academy program allows youth from across D.C. to join Howard University Hospital doctors, Prince William school system makes counterproposal on salaries 09/26/2023 10:28am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. With an impasse in negotiations already declared by the Prince William Education Association, the two sides in the Prince William Count Are you saying 'what?' more often? OTC hearing aids may help, but they’re not selling 09/25/2023 11:01am • The Food and Drug Administration approved sales of over-the-counter hearing aids almost one year ago, on Oct. 17, but despite the hyped expectations, they aren’t flying off the shelves. Polling commissioned by Rockville, Maryland-based the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association finds that WTOP Book Report: Memoir recounts mother's journey raising transgender daughter, twin brother 09/24/2023 05:15am • This story was written as part of the WTOP Book Report series authored by Terik King. Read more of that coverage.  Imagine you're in your early 40s, and after struggling through two years and seven rounds of fertility treatments, you become the mother of twin sons. But one of your children What parents should know about young kids getting the new COVID booster 09/23/2023 05:06am • The new COVID-19 booster shot is safe for young kids and infants, according to Dr. Sarah Combs with the Children's National Hospital in D.C. "We are seeing a lot of children coming through the doors with respiratory illnesses, so I will say top of mind for a lot of parents right now is 'how can I CDC recommends Pfizer's RSV vaccine during pregnancy 09/22/2023 11:01pm • ▶ Watch Video: CDC recommends first-ever RSV vaccine during pregnancy An advisory panel for the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention on Friday recommended that a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, be given during pregnancy, providing an extra level of protection